EDUCATION
University of California,
Irvine
Doctorate of Philosophy in American History
- Spring, 2000
Dissertation: "Thinking the Unthinkable: Civil Defense, Nuclear
Strategy, and Popular Culture in Cold War America."
Committee Chair: Keith
Nelson
Areas of Concentration: U.S. Foreign Relations and Politics; U.S.
History; Asian American Studies
University of London,
Institute of United States Studies
Master of Arts in United States Studies, 1992
Master's Thesis: "Rhetoric and Symbols in the Nixon Presidential
Campaigns"
University of California,
Irvine
Certificate of Legal Assistantship (w/ Honors), University of California
Extension, Irvine, 1990
Bachelor of Arts in History, Cum Laude, June 1989
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
WEST
VALLEY COLLEGE
Departments of History and
Political Science
Instructor of History and Political Science
Professional Activities
History Department Chair, 2003-2004
Distance Learning Committee, 2003-2005
Course Management System Team (choosing a new Distance Learning Vendor),
2004-2005
AGS Co-Advisor, 2005 - Present
Academic Senate, Social Science Representative, 2005 - 2007
Hiring Committees: Political Science (2006)
MARYMOUNT
COLLEGE
Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Assistant Professor in U.S. History and Political Science (1/00
- 8/02)
History 120: History of the United States I
History 121: History of the United States II
History 130: California History and Government
History 220: The United States in the Twentieth Century
History 270:
Ethnic History of the United States
Poli Sci 100: American
Institutions
Poli Sci 110: Introduction to Political Science
Poli Sci 220: Comparative Government
Professional Activities
Marymount
Faculty Senate Delegate, Secretary (2001-2002, 2000-2001)
Faculty Development Committee (2000-2001)
Marymount Judicial Board
Marymount Library Committee
Marymount London Semester Committee
CALIFORNIA
STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON
Department of American Studies
Lecturer
American Studies 301: The American Character, Fall 1998
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
IRVINE
Department of
History
Lecturer
History
183A: Race and American Foreign Policy (Spring 2002)
History 158: American Foreign Relations Since WWII (Spring
2001, Fall 1997)
History 40B:
Nineteenth Century
America (
Summer 2001, Summer 2000)
History 40C: Twentieth Century America ( Summer 1997)
Instructor (English
and Comparative Literature Department)
Writing 39C: Argument and Research (a writing composition course)
(1997-2002)
Teaching Assistant
Asian American 60C: Asian American Studies III ( Spring 1999, Spring
1998)
History 40C:
Twentieth Century America ( Spring 1997)
History 43A: Premodern East
Asia ( Fall 1997)
History 40B: American History,
1800-1900 ( Winter 1996)
History 11: War and Peace in the Twentieth
Century ( Fall 1996)
History 43B: Modern China, 17th
Century-Present ( Summer 1996, Spring, 1995)
History 182:
American Racial Thought. ( Spring, 1995)
History 158A: Rise and Fall of the American Superpower,
1933-Present (
Fall 1995)
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Paralegal
In charge of subpoena compliance, supervision of staff, case reviews,
deposition summarization, litigation matters.
PUBLICATIONS
"A Cold War Home Front, 1945-1963" in Daily
Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America
From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam
War (ed. by David
Heidler and Jeanne Heidler, Greenwood Press, 2007)
PAPERS DELIVERED/ COMMENTATOR/ PRESENTATIONS
"The Why
Question: Causes and Consequences to 9/11," Marymount College
Teach-In and Open Forum on the Events of 9/11, October 2001.
Commentator for the Sixth Annual Cold War History Group
Conference, University of California Santa Barbara, May 2001.
Technology in the Classroom: Integrating PowerPoint and
the Internet Into Your Teaching." Presenter on the pedagogical uses
of PowerPoint and web based technology, All College Faculty Workshop, Marymount
College, Feb 2001.
"Family
Room of Tomorrow: Selling Survival Through Civil Defense and the Public's
Response in the 1950s." Presented at Southwest/Texas Popular
Culture Association's National Conference, New Mexico, March, 2001.
"Thinking the Unthinkable: The Civil Defense
Debate in the 1980s." Society
for Historians of American Foreign Relations national conference, Toronto,
Canada, June 2000. (An earlier version presented at the Second Annual Cold
War History Group Conference, University of California Santa Barbara, May 1997)
"Race and Ethnicity in Foreign Relations - Where Do We Go From
Here?" Presented at 1998 Southern California U.C. Regional U.S. Foreign
Relations Roundtable, UC Irvine.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Graduate Student Representative to UCI History Faculty Meetings (1996-97)
UCI Associated Graduated Student Council (Humanities Representative 1993-94)
UCI Canterbury Board of Directors (Graduate Student Representative 1993-95)
UCI College Democrats (Vice-President of Political Affairs 1995)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Association for Asian American Studies
UCI Alumni Association
AWARDS AND HONORS
Teacher of the Month, Marymount College (February 2001)
University of California Regents Scholarship, 1999
Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Humanities, 1999
Outstanding Teaching Assistant in History, 1998
UCI History Fellowship, Summer 1998
UCI History Research Fellowship, Summer of 1996 & Summer 1997
UCI Alumni/Washington, D.C. Intern Scholarship, 1994
University of California Regents Scholarship, 1993
Rotary International
Scholar - Ambassador of Goodwill to Great Britain, 1991-1992
UC Irvine School of Humanities Honors Program, 1987-1989
Best Senior Humanities Honors Thesis, 1989
UC Irvine Fitzgerald History Award, 1987
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